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Monday, September 21, 2015

Walker wants to End all Labor Protections and Destroy Economic Mobility for Workers.

Scott Walker hasn’t exactly come right out and said it, but
some unions are great, even coddled.

The Wisconsin Troopers Association … spared both Act 10 and take-home
pay reduced by roughly 10% because of cuts to health care and pension benefits …
and still negotiated a roughly 17% pay increase.

Walker protected two other unions that supported him, but to
do so, he had to protect them all statewide:

The police officers and firefighters of Milwaukee backed
Walker on the campaign trail. Walker's spokeswoman Patrick pointed out that Act
10 preserved collective bargaining for all local police and firefighters, not
just those in Milwaukee, saying that proved Walker doesn't play favorites.

(A) new study, “Bargaining for the American Dream,” establishes that the children of union members earn more money … children of non-union members who live in areas with high union concentration earn more money as well.” The report concludes, “What is clear is that mobility thrives where unions thrive.”Economic mobility is the American Dream – the ideal that every American has the opportunity to work hard and do better for himself and his family. And that is what Republican presidential candidates want to kill by destroying unions.

It may be that Walker’s anti-labor message may not be going
over well with conservative voters who still have jobs and have kids who will
need jobs someday:

Last week, Scott Walker one-upped the gang of GOP
presidential candidates all jostling for the coveted Republican title of Best
Billionaire Bootlicker … announcing with pomp and fanfare that, unlike those
other Republican pansies, a President Walker wouldn’t stop at crushing labor
unions. No. That wouldn’t hamstring the middle class sufficiently for Walker.
He’d also deny workers paid sick leave and compensation for overtime. Now those
are some real anti-worker, middle-class-hatin’ chops!Walker promised that as president he would kill the federal
board that investigates unfair labor practices, annihilate all unions
representing federal workers, end “fair share” fees nationwide, terminate the
requirement that contractors on federally subsidized jobs pay workers a fair
wage based on local standards, stop mandating federal contractors provide paid
sick leave and slash the number of workers who must be paid overtime when they
work more than 40 hours.

Really, and that’s supposed to convince struggling American
workers that Scott Walker got their back?

Walker, like all Republicans, think
it’s a justifiable trade off to lose upward mobility if they can at least destroy the
unions ability to fund the Democratic Party. Gotta win elections.

Clearing up the language; Fair Share or Freeloading?

Employees don’t have to join a union and
they don’t have to pay union dues ... if they don’t they are required in 25 states
to pay a “fair share” fee that covers the cost of union services that benefit
them, such as collective bargaining and grievance litigation … Federal law
mandates that the union provide services for all workers, including those who
don’t join.

Killing Upward Mobility:

The 25 states that prohibit fair
share fees deliberately deny unions that income in order to financially cripple
them. The likes of Paul and Walker are eager to financially strangle the
organizations that provide millions of workers and their children with access
to the American Dream. Sounds like a big, fat pay cut for millions who are
struggling to support their families. With laws forbidding fair share fees and other anti-union measures, Republicans stole economic mobility from workers.

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